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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4342, 18 February 1875, Page 3

.Petroleum in (jemiany.—The discovery ot petroleum springs on the Liineberg Heaths in Northern Germany promises to convert this once barren and apparently unavailable tract into what might by comparison be designated as an eldoradb. Borings were made at Oberg by Hanoverian and French surveyors as early as 1863, but ,then the measures takeu failed to confirm the opinion which had been previously advanced of the presence of oil. Since then the heath has been drained and rendered fit for cultivation, and recently it has been shown that petroleum can be obtained by simple borings, and that; at some spots, as at the village of-Wietze, the sand is saturated with rock-oil. In this part of the heath since 1852, when the- owner o£ the land caused a shaft to be sunk, petroleum has been obtained wit intermission, although the process adopter >». its extraction has consisted in little more than a mere'washing of the sand, through which the oil was suffered to run into vessels prepared for its reception. In clearness, purity, and specific weight the Liineberg oil is said to be identical with the American rock-oils, and it is almost without smell of any kind. It is understood that* the right to bore for oil over the best part of this valuable district has been acquired by a body of English capitalists.

WOOL. —The undersigned is a purchaser of WOOL, or will make advances 011 3lips placed in his handß for sale in London. EDWARD PEARCE. THE undersigned are Cash Buyers of WOOL and other PRODUCE, or will make advances on the same on liberal terms. LEVIN & CO. he undersigned are prepared to VV make CASH ADVANCES on WOOL and other produce shipped through them for. sale' in the London market, on extremely liberal terms. They are also cash purchasers of same. W. & G. TURNBULL & CO., COLONIAL PBODUCE. nHE undersigned are Cash Purchasers of WOOL, TALLOW, and other produce; they will make liberal advances on the r,e. ' JOHNSTON & CO.